Essays
A Beating Heart Behind the Words
What do we write about when we write about love, asks Janice Pariat
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The Biological Imperative
Shougat Dasgupta reflects on the politics of parenthood. And loving your children
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Love is a Battlefield
And we’re fighting for our future. Our fraught quest to find meaning in love might be what makes us human, argues GN Devy. It imbues mankind with a cosmic grace
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Perpetuating Privilege
Whatever the populist rhetoric, elites have always found ways to defend their interests and shut others out, argues Amita Baviskar
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Shantiniketan Days
This is an excerpt from Amader Shantiniketan, written almost 50 years ago by Shivani, translated by Ira Pande
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The Star Files
Thirty years ago, Nasreen Munni Kabir met a man who had long been a legend. Excerpts from an interview with the inimitable Dev Anand
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The Little Publisher That Could
A stubborn devotion to quality and Kolkata characterises Naveen Kishore, the founder of Seagull Books, bringing Nobel winners and world literature to a bookshop near you, writes Sandip Roy
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Jackie and Tania
Escaping the Holocaust, many Jews found refuge in India. Margot Cohen tells the story of one couple who remade their lives in a gentle, generous Bangalore
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The Missing Link
What do mountain-dwellers feel about their homeland—those forbidding and entrancing, life-sustaining highlands? Mamang Dai ponders the mystique of the Eastern Himalaya in Arunachal Pradesh
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